Taung Child discovered
1924 · Event
Raymond Dart identifies a child's skull from a South African quarry as Australopithecus africanus — dismissed for decades because it contradicted Piltdown.
On these timelines: Human Origins & the Ice Age, Master, Sub-Saharan Africa
More from Human Origins & the Ice Age
- Emergence of Homo sapiens (300000 BCE)
- Split between humans and chimpanzees (7000000 BCE)
- Extinction of the Neanderthals (40000 BCE)
- Neanderthal remains found in the Neander Valley (1856)
- Pleistocene Ice Age (2580000 BCE)
- Bruniquel Cave structures (174000 BCE)
- Homo floresiensis, the island 'hobbits' (100000 BCE)
- Shanidar Cave excavations (1951)
Around 1924
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)